One held for smuggling diamond at airport

Chennai: A passenger who arrived at the Chennai airport from Sri Lanka in Jet Airways flight on Thursday night was found to have swallowed plastic bag containing diamonds and precious stones worth Rs 9 lakh.
Musthafa Jamal, 43, a resident of S P Pattanam of Ramanathapuram district, was detained by Customs officials when they found strange objects in his stomach during a scan after he arrived in a late night flight to Chennai from Colombo.
When the contents were extracted from his stomach, the Customs officials were startled to find a pouch having diamonds and precious stones worth Rs 9 lakh and Jamal was detained for interrogation by the police.
During the enquiry of Jamal, it was found that he owned a house at Triplicane in the city and might have evaded the Customs many times at Chennai airport while smuggling diamonds in the flights from Colombo.
29/09/07 News Today

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Categories: Airports Sep 2007